Toshio Shiratori

Toshio Shiratori (8 June 1887-3 June 1949) was Japan's ambassador to Italy from 1938 to 1940, helping in the formation of the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Nazi Germany.

Biography
Toshio Shiratori was born on 8 June 1887 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and he served as Director of the Information Bureau of the Foreign Ministry from 1929 to 1933. Shiratori, and he served as ambassador to Finland from 1933 to 1936 before serving as the ambassador to Fascist Italy in 1938. Shiratori agreed to the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Nazi Germany on 27 September 1940, leading to Japan's entry into World War II in 1941. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 1949 of cancer.